14 June 2025 - Saturday Nawal Tijaax
Introducing Conrad’s Story
“I Carry the Mountain in My Breath”
A Ceremonial Introduction to Living Within Two Lands
from the Earth Remembers Series
I carry the mountain in my breath.
It does not crumble with distance,
nor fade in the shadow of buildings.
It walks with me,
woven into the ribs of my remembering.
There are two skies above me.
One opens above the volcanoes—
the sky that once held my ancestors’ fire.
The other—veined with city light—
still receives the same moon,
the same stars that knew my name
As an elder beneath the medicine tree of Light.
Between these two skies, I walk.
Between these two lands, I listen.
Between these two voices, I remember.
Sometimes, I walk on sacred soil—
maize-sweet, bird-woven,
held by the silence of the lake.
Other times,
I walk through the city’s hum,
where the sacredness must be sought
with slower breath,
and a softer touch.
Yet the light walks with me
in both places.
The medicine tree of Light and the concrete
are not enemies.
They are mirrors.
And I, an older man now,
am the thread that passes through them.
I have heard the call
of the Nawals
who bless the bones of broken systems.
I have felt the blade
of the Nawals
who cut through what no longer serves.
I have leaned into the dream
of the Nawals
who reshape the forms from within.
And I have wept with the song
of the Nawals
who come from the Unknown
to plant a seed no one has seen.
These voices walk both lands.
As do I.
Between volcanoes and streetlight,
between sacred speech and urban silence,
between the fire of tradition
and the birth of what has never been—
I live.
This is my ceremonial path.
This is my prayer made visible.
Wherever my feet touch,
the land remembers.
Wherever my breath moves,
the mountain lives.
I carry the mountain in my breath.
And so can you.
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Conrad Satala